Greatest Scene

getonyourboots

Im new to this forum so Im not sure if this has been done to death already.

What do you consider the greatest scene or scenes in cinema history???

McGrath5

This from the Shawshank Redemption. Its a few different scene's that relate to each other. One of my Favourite's. Bear in mind if anyone hasn't seen this film before it does contain some spoiler's.

fartmaster

opening battle scene in Gladiator is awesome and the part were Crowe goes Roma Victor gives me shivers like I was just there in the midst of the battle with him killing those barbaric Germans lol

seamus

I was just thinking about this the other day:
Pulp Fiction in the scene between Jules (Jackson) and Ringo (Roth). It's the attitude of Jackson he says, "It's the one that says 'Bad Motha****a'", in such a, "What other one could it possibly be?" way.
The tension in the scene, especially the first time you saw it, is just incredible. Like the famous scene from goodfellas actually.

krudler

fartmaster wrote: »

opening battle scene in Gladiator is awesome and the part were Crowe goes Roma Victor gives me shivers like I was just there in the midst of the battle with him killing those barbaric Germans lol

Its "Roma Vita!" that he shouts, which is also a huge mistake as it means "Rome has been conquered!" That whole scene is full of errors, from the arrows on the ground infront of the barbarians before the Romans have started firing them to the extras laughing as the pretend to hit each other in the wide shots of the battle, seriously watch the bottom of the screen in some parts .

Best scene ever? For me its from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy chases the truck on horseback, gets on it, takes over it, gets rid of all the remaining Nazis bar one who batters him , chucks him out the window, he gets dragged behind the truck before climbing back in , chucking said Nazi out himself and then running him over with the truck. All while John Williams' magnificent theme tune is blaring, its the reason we watch movies tbh

bnt

For me it has to be from Heat: the bank robbery in downtown LA, followed by the shootout in the street. Just the sound of the gunfire is scary, echoing off the skyscrapers.

TheManWho

The Omaha landings in Saving Private Ryan.

guerito

Alec Balwin's "pep talk" in Glengarry Glen Ross

karlog

The great escape ,steve mcqueen:)

Tomohawk

Death Star trench scene from Star Wars: A New Hope.

ziedth

Not orginally for me, but its al pacino's speech from any given sunday i could actually kill a kitten after hearing it gets the blood pumping so much.

rednik

Midnight Express. Brad Davis standing in the courtroom giving his speech after finding out his sentence has been increased to 30 years. One of the most moving pieces of cinema history from this tragic actor.

tippspur

Close encounters of a third kind when the mothership came up over the mountain.

Krieg

For me, V for Vendetta, "god is in the rain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9tbvQu6Iq8

Shryke

I won't say greatest because that would just be rediculous. I'll just say great.
The opening to The Two Towers with Gandalf battling the Balrog was so incredibly epic. I'm a big Tolkien fan so it was extra great.
The entirety of Apocalypse Now, more importantly the redux. If you're in the right state of mind you just become transfixed.
I'll try to think of more.

niallon

Classic

Chilling

Mr.Nice Guy

I'm going to go with one from my childhood which I adored as a kid and still try to catch when I see it on today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yejwYSZQPsg

The scene was brilliantly done and means a lot to me for nostalgic reasons.

brennaldo

the balrog scene from the two towers and the joker pencil scene were both amazing
the omaha scene already mensioned was also classic.

theres tonnes of clips though, johnny depps role as captain sparrow was ace, heath ledger as the joker, brad pitt as benjamin button

id say my favourite ever scene was the entire battle for helms deep in the lord of the rings: the two towers, i just love it

foxyboxer

despite the technical inaccuracies, the launch scene in Apollo 13 is 10 minutes of true epic cinema. When getting suited up it seems like a regal coronation, james horner's score complements this scene so well.

MayoForSam

Batty's (Rutger Hauer) death scene in 'Blade Runner':

Quote: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die".

Classic.

Lamper.sffc

Heres a few i love. Im sure i have loads more but these are the first few that come to mind. There are spoilers in some (especially first 2)

A Time to Kill. Back when Matthew McConaughey acted in decent movies.

Usual Suspects

True Romance

Return of the King ( an unexpected quiet moment in the battle)

300

JP Liz

25th Hour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxurS0G4N5A

faceman

While I like reading responses, i find it difficult to add to these threads. What defines a great scene? Something that can be watched out of context of the film itself? Something cool?

I will add my 2c anyway.

the restaurant scene in The Godfatherwhere Al Pacino "turns". Everything about that scene is world class, the acting, the pacing, the restraint, the score, the SFX.

the infamous knife scene in 12 Angry Men. "you dont really mean that, don't you"

Thomas_S_Hunterson

Really needs the context of the whole film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3IYZu0pF64

goddevil

I have loads of favourites. Here's one of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Oc5ny3hjg

Kess73

Brody on the beach in Jaws when the camera zooms in on him after an attack, or his "bigger boat" scene. Could not find the former on youtube






Quint's speech in Jaws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrvMNf-HEg

and a Brody vid cuz I like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXHn1hcHwgE

TheDoc

Hard one this, theres scenes that I personally love seeing, but not be to everyones taste.


Val kilmer facing off against michael biehn in tombstone

Arnie lowering himself into the pit in T2

Sly killing everything in rambo 4

The lobby scene in the matrix

Too many to right down to be fair

I love that shootout in heat though.

ZiMZuM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnitdUvWx8k

ReacherCreature

Not sure about these being the geatest scenes of all time but they're my favourites.

In Terminator 2 when Arnie leaves the bar clad in biker gear and 'Bad to the Bone' playing in the background.

In Friday Night Lights, the last drive and when Charlie puts the championship ring on Don's finger. Almost brings me to tears each time.

Collateral - The 'Fever' scene.

Heat - That shootout.

Saving Private Ryan - When Reiban shoots out the flak gun & when Jackson is recieting prayers whilst shooting troops with his rifle.

Taken - Most of the fight scenes.

The Bourne Ultimatium - The scene in Victoria Station guiding the reporter along. Just a few scenes out of probably one of my favourite movie trilogies.

We Were Soldiers - When Moore's troops board the helicopters and "Lay me down(Not sure of song)" by Joesph Kilna McKenzie is playing. Great stuff.

Just a few there.

fartmaster

krudler wrote: »

Its "Roma Vita!" that he shouts, which is also a huge mistake as it means "Rome has been conquered!" That whole scene is full of errors, from the arrows on the ground infront of the barbarians before the Romans have started firing them to the extras laughing as the pretend to hit each other in the wide shots of the battle, seriously watch the bottom of the screen in some parts .

Its sounds like Roma Victor and the time that you have on yer hands (which seems a lot) you need to make better use of

goddevil

Here's a few more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu3GmRQ-U9k

Miller's crossing is one of the best works of the Coen brothers and to me, it is the best gangster movie ever. The scene in the woods where Turturro begs Byrne for his life and the scene where Bryne says that he has no heart and shoots turturro are amazing.

goddevil

The mother of all westerns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuAskRsP5K0

razorblunt

I love the end of Friday Night Lights, when the Dad who's tough in his soon for being, in his eyes, weaker than him, catches up with him on the sideline, and gives him the ring he won playing for the same team 20 years previously.

I love the end of Batman Begins, the whole nod to the Joker that was awesome.

BraveDonut

The scene in Fight Club where they are making soap and Tyler Durden gives the narrator a chemical burn on his hand....

goddevil

An EPIC scene from let the right one in. One of the best horror movie ever made. The nosferatu of modern cinema. Twilight my ass:eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBB7htM8d8

scouttio

the end of monthy python and the holy grail has to be one of the best ha

robby^5

So many to choose from, what I can think of right now...

Heat - Coffee shop scene, Bank robbery.
Collateral - Club scene, Final train scene.
American Pyscho - Paul Alans murder.
Public Enemies - Shootout at the lodge.
Dark Knight - Opening bank robbery, Joker interrogation.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Ether.

Probably a load more that I cant think of right now, been on a bit of a Depp/Bale/Mann-athon at the moment so thats all I can come up with

purple_hatstand

This is the opening credit sequence from 'Once Upon A Time In The West' and even minus the extended intro, it's easily one of my favourite sequences ever...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHZpO6aNLwE

Incidentally, I have no idea how to get the YouTube tags working in here - any help?

foxinsox

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hGvQtumNAY

A Few Good Men

"You Can't Handle the Truth"

Jack Nicholson/Tom Cruise

2040

MayoForSam wrote: »

Batty's (Rutger Hauer) death scene in 'Blade Runner':

Quote: "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die".

Classic.

You beat me to it. That scene is good for a number of reasons. I also like the scene in fight club where Brad Pitt spits blood all over Lou's face. Can't find it on youtube.

RadioGaGa

Casino contains many great scenes but my personal favourite is this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5CTEQ8SeIs

Definitely my favourite use of music in film, "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" suits this montage to a tee. Nicky's antics are amusing and the fast changing shots of his various tipsters are excellent.
When the song changes to a jazz sound, the growing pace of the guitar solo coincides with Nicky's interrogation of the guy starting at 5:20 in the video and is just amazing.

Spiritoftheseventies

When Kevin Costner's character Elliott Ness pushes the bad guy off the roof in the Untouchables. so many great scenes from that movie. Then of course there is the iconic scene of John Wayne silhouetted in the doorway in the Searchers, the beginning of Citizen Kane when the snowball falls out of Kanes hand, the opening scene in Raging Bull when Le Motta shadow boxes, harry Lime coming out of the shadows in the Third Man etc.

Manic Moran

When a movie brings war vets to tears for its accuracy, it's hard to think that SPR did much wrong. (The rest of the movie sortof sucked, but the beach scene was classic).

Don't know why, but the Blues Brothers car chase through the shopping mall is one of the classics for me as well.

NTM

Exar Khun

krudler wrote: »

Its "Roma Vita!" that he shouts, which is also a huge mistake as it means "Rome has been conquered!" That whole scene is full of errors, from the arrows on the ground infront of the barbarians before the Romans have started firing them to the extras laughing as the pretend to hit each other in the wide shots of the battle, seriously watch the bottom of the screen in some parts .

I believe it is Roma Victor.

Roma vita doesn't even make sense...

Also the Scene at the end of Blade Runner gets my vote

Makaveli

Greatest scene ever, no but a great scene, yes. The petri dish scene in The Thing. Talk about atmosphere and tension. Do not watch the video if you haven't seen the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ce0On5HcQ

X-Calibre

goddevil wrote: »

An EPIC scene from let the right one in. One of the best horror movie ever made. The nosferatu of modern cinema. Twilight my ass:eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DBB7htM8d8

Was going to thank that post until I heard the dubbing... That is horrendous! I actually cant believe there was a dubbed version done as bad as that for such an amazing movie...

Favorite scene that springs to mind for me is the Hamburgers/Ezekiel scene in Pulp Fiction. Everytime I watch it, it just to get funnier and more awkward to watch

goddevil

X-Calibre wrote: »

Was going to thank that post until I heard the dubbing... That is horrendous! I actually cant believe there was a dubbed version done as bad as that for such an amazing movie...

Favorite scene that springs to mind for me is the Hamburgers/Ezekiel scene in Pulp Fiction. Everytime I watch it, it just to get funnier and more awkward to watch

The dubbing was terrible, yes. But i watched the original with subtitles and it was awesome. In fact one of my favourite scenes from the movie was when oscar asks " Are you old?" and she replies "I am 12. But i've been 12 for a long time"... Bloody awesome:pac:

monosharp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyd2QHFJtoc

Beginning of Oldboy on the roof. Oh-Daesu holding the guy by the tie and the little dog just watching

Still kicks ass even after the 10th time watching it.

thischarmingman

this is my favourite scene in any movie...and i've seen at least 8.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_xBT_xavzM

film is called ski party

Spiritoftheseventies

Makaveli wrote: »

Greatest scene ever, no but a great scene, yes. The petri dish scene in The Thing. Talk about atmosphere and tension. Do not watch the video if you haven't seen the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75Ce0On5HcQ

should we re call this thread favourite scene. Not enough classic films referenced here. Film history goes back a long way folks. also could people posting name the film they are referencing when posting links.

myk

I think the closing speech at the end of Chaplin's The Great Dictator is pretty excellent. Very poignant considering that it was made and released before the reality of the Holocaust was known outside Germany.